Hopefully this will fix the spurious failures of test_mailbox.py that I'm
experiencing. (This code and mailbox.py itself are full of calls to file()
that should be calls to open() -- but I'm not fixing those.)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py b/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
index 6044071..18b966f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_mailbox.py
@@ -577,14 +577,18 @@
# Remove old files from 'tmp'
foo_path = os.path.join(self._path, 'tmp', 'foo')
bar_path = os.path.join(self._path, 'tmp', 'bar')
- file(foo_path, 'w').close()
- file(bar_path, 'w').close()
+ f = open(foo_path, 'w')
+ f.write("@")
+ f.close()
+ f = open(bar_path, 'w')
+ f.write("@")
+ f.close()
self._box.clean()
self.assert_(os.path.exists(foo_path))
self.assert_(os.path.exists(bar_path))
foo_stat = os.stat(foo_path)
- os.utime(os.path.join(foo_path), (time.time() - 129600 - 2,
- foo_stat.st_mtime))
+ os.utime(foo_path, (time.time() - 129600 - 2,
+ foo_stat.st_mtime))
self._box.clean()
self.assert_(not os.path.exists(foo_path))
self.assert_(os.path.exists(bar_path))